Supporting Teaching and learning in Schools
Level 3 Diploma
Key Skills
Functional Skills and Key Skills
•Functional Skills qualifications are due to replace Key Skills, as a mandatory component of all Apprenticeship frameworks.
•The minimum requirement for Functional Skills in Apprenticeship frameworks is English and Mathematics at Level 1 for Level
2 Apprenticeships and Level 2 for an Advanced (Level 3) Apprenticeship.
•Currently there is a choice of offering either Key Skills or Functional Skills within an Apprenticeship
Between April 2011 until the end of September 2012 there will be parallel running between Key Skills, Functional Skills and the new GCSEs (with increased functional content).